The Constitution of Pennyland

<!-- We the People and Canines of Pennyland, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for Pennyland on the fifth day of March, in the year Two Thousand Fifteen.

Article. I. Section. 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in the Parliament of Pennyland. Section. 2. The Parliament of Lords shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States. No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of eighteen Years, and has been one year a Citizen of the Pennyland, and who shall, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. The Parliament of Lords shall choose their main Speaker and other Officers to the Supreme Leader; and shall have the sole power of Impeachment of unruly Lords under the Supreme Leader’s direction. Section. 3. Each Lord shall have one Vote. The Queen of Pennyland shall be President of the Parliament, but shall have no vote. Section. 4. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every month, unless they should find it necessary to meet multiple times in the given month. Section. 5. The lords shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place. No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of Pennyland. Section. 6. Every Bill which shall have passed the Parliament, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the Supreme Leader; If s/he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall become a Law. Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Parliament may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the Supreme Leader; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Parliament, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill. Section. 7. The Parliament shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout Pennyland; To borrow Money on the credit of Pennyland; To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several territories; To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout Pennyland; To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the Pennyland; To establish Post Offices and post Roads; To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the Pennyland, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the Pennyland, or in any Department or Officer thereof. Section. 8. The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken. No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State. No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another. No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time. . Section. 9. No territory shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. No territory shall, without the Consent of the Parliament, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Control of the Congress. No Territory shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

Article. II. Section. 1. The Congress may determine the Time of choosing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the Pennyland. No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of Pennyland, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of Parliament; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of sixteen Years, a Resident within Pennyland. In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Queen, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the Supreme Leader and Queen, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a new Supreme Leader shall be elected if a prince has yet to be born. The Supreme Leader shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from Pennyland, or any of them. Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:—"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of Supreme Leader of Pennyland, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of Pennyland." Section. 2. The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of Pennyland, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the Pennyland; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against Pennyland, except in Cases of Impeachment. He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Lords present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the Pennyland, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the Supreme Leader alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments. The Supreme Leader shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session. Section. 3. He shall from time to time give to the Parliament Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. Section. 4. The Supreme Leader, and all civil Officers of Pennyland, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Article III. Section. 1. The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Parliament may by Law have directed. Section. 2. Treason against the Pennyland, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. The parliament shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.

Article. IV. Section. 1. Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof. Section. 2. The Citizens of each territory shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the territories of Pennyland. A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime. No Person held to Service or Labor in one territory, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labor, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labor may be due. Section. 3. New territories may be admitted by the Parliament. The Parliament shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to Pennyland; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of Pennyland, or of any particular State.

Article. V. The Parliament, whenever two thirds of members shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several Territories, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several territories, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Parliament; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the eighth Section of the first Article.

Article. VI. All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the Pennyland under this Constitution, as under the Confederation. This Constitution, and the Laws of the Pennyland which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the Pennyland, shall be the supreme Law of the Land. The Lords before mentioned, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under Pennyland.

Article. VII. The Ratification of the Conventions of Parliament and the Supreme Leader, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution. Done in Convention by the Consent of Supreme Leader and Parliament and the Citizens of Pennyland present the Fifth day of March in the Year of our Lord Two Thousand Fifteen and of the Independence of Pennyland In witness of our Brethren whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names, Harley, Supreme Leader of Pennyland Penny, Queen of Pennyland -->